Social Media Study Set
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After Facebook and Twitter, ________ is the 3rd most popular social networking site.
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Pinterest
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Are most of the Pinterest users men or women?
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Women
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Eleven percent of Pinterest pins are in the _________ category.
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Food & Drink
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Credited with creating "Instagram"
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Kevin Systrom
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One of the two Stanford University graduates who created Instagram
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Mike Krieger
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What year was Instagram released?
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2010
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An online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on a variety of social networking platforms.
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Instagram
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As of December 2014, how many millions of active users did Instagram have?
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300
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What is the Instagram tagline (motto)?
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Fast Beautiful photo sharing
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Which social networking service competes with Facebook, but is aimed at a younger audience?
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Pheed
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Who is the creator of the social networking service Pheed?
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O.D. Kobo, an Internet entrepreneur, is the founder of Pheed
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What is the name of the company that bought and acquired the Pheed site in March 2014?
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Mobil Media Group owned by Carlos Slim Helu'
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What is the current value of one share of stock in Twitter, Inc.?
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$30.28 per share
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Which online social networking service was created by Jack Dorsey?
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Twitter
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Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short _________-character messages?
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140
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As of May of this year, Twitter has more than ______ million active users.
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500
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What was the very first message sent by Jack Dorsey on Twitter?
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"just setting up my twttr"
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What are Twitter messages called?
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tweets
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Which online chat website allows users to communicate with others without having to register for an account?
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Omegle
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Who is credited with creating the free online chat website Omegle?
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Leif K-Brooks
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What is the Omegle slogan?
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Talk to Strangers!
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A feature of the Omegle site is that it pairs users randomly to communicate as "_____________".
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Strangers
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Omegle randomly pair users in 1-on-1chat sessions where they chat anonomously using these names
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You and Stranger, Stranger 1, Stranger 2
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Which social media site are Stanford University graduates, Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, credited with creating?
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Snapchat
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Using Snapchat, you can take _________, _________, __________, and send them to a controlled list of recipients.
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pictures, record videos, add text and drawings
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Snapchat's ____________ feature allows users to send money to their friends in the app.
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"Snapcash"
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Snapchat's _________feature allows users to create personal pictures and videos to be broadcast to their friends.
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"My Story"
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The Snapchat application's original name was __________.
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Picaboo
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What are the names of the three developers of Snapchat?
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Bobby Murphy, Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown
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An interest-based social network owned and operated by Google, Inc.
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Google+
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The Snapchat app's mascot is called __________.
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"Ghostface Chillah"
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YouTube is a ___________ website headquartered in San Bruno, CA.
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video-sharing
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YouTube was bought by _________ for $1.65 billion in 2006.
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Google
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Broadcast Yourself is the slogan/tagline for the _________ video site.
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YouTube
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The three founders of YouTube
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Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim
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New YouTube app especially for use by children with parental controls and restrictions on who can upload content.
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YouTube Kids
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The first YouTube video, titled __________, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diago Zoo and can still be viewed.
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Me at the Zoo
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_________or Not is a rating site that allows users to rate the attractiveness of photos submitted voluntarily by others.
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Hot
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_______________ created the Hot or Not social network site.
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James Hong and Jim Young
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The Hot or Not site influenced the creators who went on to create both ___________ and ___________.
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Facebook and YouTube
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The original name of the Hot or Not site
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"Am I Hot or Not"
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The idea for the ____________ site came from a disagreement between two men about a woman's attractiveness.
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Hot or Not
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Allows users to record short video clips up to 6 seconds long.
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Vine
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Who were the original authors of Vine?
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Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll
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Vine is a __________ company was bought by Twitter in 2012 for $30 million.
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social video viewing
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This app has its own in-app camera that allows recording only while the screen is being touched.
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Vine
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An ____________ version of Vine allows members to watch looping videos.
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Xbox
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The ____________ company was the first to use a Vine video for advertising its business.
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Dunkin Donuts
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Used for professional, business-oriented social networking
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LinkedIn
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The slogan/tagline for the LinkedIn site
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Relationships Matter
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Founder of the LinkedIn site, had formerly worked for PayPal
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Reid Hoffman
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The basic use of _________ allows people to create profiles and "connections" to each other in an online social network, which may represent real-world relationships.
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LinkedIn
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This social networking site was given the lowest score for privacy among the top 45 sites ranked.
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Badoo
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This is a popular image and video hosting website for users to share photographs; it is owned by Yahoo.
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Flickr
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Flickr offers ____ types of accounts: Free, Ad Free, and Doublr.
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Flickr users may label uploaded images with titles and descriptions and images may be __________ by the uploader or other users.
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tagged
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Flickr provides both ________ and __________ image storage.
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private and public
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A microblogging platform and social networking website for posting multimedia to a short-form blog.
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Tumblr
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The ________ company launched an official soccer Tumblr blog
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Adidas
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The Tumblr founder and chief executive officer
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David Karp
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This site allows users to create profiles, send each other messages, and rate each other's profile pictures at no cost.
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Badoo
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Unlike most social networks, __________ does not focus on making friends or sharing media like photos, videos and music.
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LinkedIn
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When you have a _________ account, you can use the service to post and receive messages to a network of contacts, as opposed to send bulk email messages.
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Twitter
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One of the very first social networking sites was _________ . When you join this site, the first step is to create a profile and your social network starts growing from the first day.
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MySpace
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_______________ terms of use state that members must be at least 13 years old with valid email ID's
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Facebook's
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___________ has recently crossed 500 million users and is the most popular social networking site in the world.
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Facebook
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Before Facebook, the site was originally named ______________.
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Facemash
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As of 2014, Facebook had _________ million active advertisers on its site.
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This website was launched on February 4, 2004, by _____________ with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes
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Mark Zuckerberg
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A social discovery website that allows users to browse profiles of other members, play games, share tags, and virtual gifts.
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Tagged
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Because Tagged was criticized for sending deceptive bulk email, it was named the world's most ____________ website.
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annoying
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__________ offers useful information that will target audiences; your targeted customers or clients would be "following" you.
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Twitter
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An entertainment, social networking, and news website where registered members can submit text posts or direct links; it is an online bulletin board system.
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Reddit
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What is the slogan/tagline for Reddit?
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"The front page of the internet"
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How do most social media sites make money to operate?
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by selling advertising
